Deliberate Errors
The second season of Eighth Doctor audios featured a number of deliberate errors:
- There were 48 States in the United States in 1938, not 49 as Chaney claims.
- The CIA was not established until 1947, almost nine years after the events portrayed here.
- Welles fails to recognise a Shakespearean quotation.
- Don Chaney claims to own a 1929 Lamborghini previously owned by Al Capone, but Lamborghinis did not exist until 1963.
The first two "mistakes" in this list were deliberate, intended to be examples of anti-time contamination. The third was also deliberate, but was explained in The Time of the Daleks. The last was not deliberate but was later retconned to be another example of anti-time contamination.
Another possible example of anti-time contamination is the date. "The War of the Worlds" aired on October 30, 1938, yet, when he asks what day it is, the Doctor is told that it is October 31, 1938.
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